PASTRYCOOKS AWARD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12240, 14 June 1909, Page 7

PASTRYCOOKS AWARD.

The award in connection with the Wellington j?a&try cooks' dispute wa» on Saturday filed with the Clerk of Awards. The award, which embodies the agreement of the parties, comes into force on the 9th June, and remains in operation for a period of two years. It provides for a week of 48 hours, starting not earlier than 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at not earlier than 4 a.m. on Monday and Saturday. Overtime is to be paid for work done in excess of ten hours per day, 48 hours per week, or after 1 p.m. on the statutory half-rholiday at the rate of timo and a quarter for the first three hours and time and a ha}f afterwards. The holidays to be observed are: Ist January, Christmas Day, Good Friday, ! Easter Monday, the Sovereign's Birthday, and Labour Day. Work done on Christmas Day, Good Friday, or Sunday must be paid for at double rates, and on other of these holidays at time and a quarter. The minimum wages for pastry cooks are fixed as follows:— Foreman, or first hand, £3 per. week; second hand, £2 10s per week; table hand, £2 5s per week. Jobbers must be paid 10s per day of eight hours, or £V 10s per, week. An apprenticeship tof four years is provided for with wages rising by six-monthly increases from 12s 6d per week to 30s per week. No females are allowed to manufacture goods in bakehouse or to do any hot plate work, but may be employed in packing and finishing and in cleaning fruit. A time-book must be kept in every bakehotise, and the hours of work entered daily by the foreman. -\Provision is made for a week's notice of termination of engagement on either side, for half an hour to be allowed for breakfast, and three-quarters of an hour for dinner. An employee may, where it, is necessary, lodge with his employer at a 'iCharge of not more than 15s per week; an employer may, by arrangement, pror, vide two meals a day at 7s 6d per week or three meals at 10s per week. The usual provisions as to preference and under-rate workers. The award applies to all persons in the Wellington district who carry oh exclusively the busines of pastry cooks, and to those persons and firms who, while they do not carry on exclusively the business of pastry cooks," employ workers solely in that capacity.

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